2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Maryland
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Health Sciences & Services is the 42nd most popular major in the country with 31,648 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,571 and had an average of $24,129 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maryland, there were 166 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,300 and $23,034 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health sciences and services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the health sciences and services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland.
Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Maryland
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Towson University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland list. This large school is located in Towson, Maryland, and it awarded 34 masters’s health science degrees in 2019-2020.
Towson not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Health Sciences & Services Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Towson University are $18,972, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
Footnotes
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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